Author: Gaby Hale

Conservative Currents in Black America: Grassroots Struggles Against “Black-on-Black Crime” and the Urban Crisis Post-1960s

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Chanelle Rose is a professor of History at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. She specializes in Modern American history with particular emphasis on African American history, post-WWII America, Civil Rights-Black Power, tourism, conservatism, and urban history. Rose is a a 2025 recipient of Rose Library’s African American History and Culture Visiting Researcher Fellowship.  There Read More …

The Importance of Safe Space in Black Cultural Production: Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, 1960s-1970s 

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Crystal Nelson is an assistant professor of art history at the University of Colorado Boulder whose research and teaching focuses on Black art and Black visual culture(s) as articulated through painting, photography, film/video, and performance. They are a 2025 recipient of Rose Library’s African American History and Culture Visiting Researcher Fellowship. I have recently begun Read More …

Digging into ‘Souls Grown Deep’

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Joshua Massey is a Ph.D. candidate at Bard Graduate Center, where they study the art and material culture of the contemporary American South. Their dissertation explores the yard environments of artists Lonnie Holley, Mary Tillman Smith, Dinah Young, and Joe Minter, and the ways in which they function as sites of Black creative, social, and Read More …

Creating Enchantment: a History of the Gothic and Inspiring Interactive Reading 

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Edward Hyunsoo Yang is a PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A scholar of British literature of the long eighteenth century, he has particular interests in: authenticity, experimentation with literary form and genre, the Gothic, the history of the novel, influences of popular culture, the material book, and narrative performance. Read More …

Archives preserve Atlanta through Rebecca Ranson’s plays, writings

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Oli Turner received her bachelor’s degree in English & Creative Writing from Emory University in May 2025. She was awarded Highest Honors for her undergraduate honors thesis ‘I Begin Again’: Witnessing Rebecca Ranson’s Atlanta, which relied primarily on the Rose Library’s Rebecca Ranson Papers. She currently works as a podcast intern at WABE 90.1 FM. Read More …

Marlon Riggs & The Contexts of Twentieth-Century Black Queer Cultural Production

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Sam King-Shaw is a PhD Candidate at the University of Buffalo in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies. Sam’s research explores questions of relationality, desire, (freedom) dreams, and genealogy in twentieth-century Black queer cultural production. They are the 2024 recipient of Rose Library’s LGBTQ Collections Fellowship.  In the spring of 2025, I had Read More …

Brion Gysin Out of Time

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Claude Mohr is an art history Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia studying the histories of modern and contemporary art. Currently, he is interested in the intersections of gender, sexuality, and the early twentieth-century avant-gardes, focusing in particular on the relationship between transgender studies and Surrealism. Claude was a recipient of a 2024 Rose Read More …

Excavating the Basement: Reflections from the Billops-Hatch Collection   

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Ebonie Pollock is a PhD Candidate in the History of Art & Architecture department at Harvard University studying Black feminist art histories with a particular focus on Black women sculptors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is the 2024 recipient of the Billops-Hatch Fellowship at Rose Library.  I had the privilege of Read More …

‘Apprehensions’: Anthony Hecht’s Meditations on History and Poetry

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Elena Valli is a PhD researcher and Irish Research Council postgraduate fellow at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) working on mid twentieth-century American and British poetry. Her thesis explores the use of Renaissance affective prayer and religious meditation in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, Anthony Hecht, and Geoffrey Hill. Elena received the Rose Visiting Research Fellowship Read More …

Event announcement: “Watersheds: Critical Moments for Archives and the Environment” 

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by the Rose Library Sustainability Committee Event announcement: “Watersheds: Critical Moments for Archives and the Environment” – April 22, 2025, 10:00am-3:30pm  Since forming in 2019, the Rose Library Sustainability Committee has been dedicated to aligning archival work with the work of environmental justice. As part of this commitment, we research current thinking around archives and climate Read More …